Lit tall candles bathe the room in a warm glow. This is Maren's personal library, filled with ancient scrolls and tomes on all sorts of subjects.

Suddenly, an engraved rune on the floor begins to shine brightly and an illusion of Maren appears before you.

"Greetings. Though you are not welcomed in my library, I suppose it cannot hurt to have you look around. Please feel free to search until your heart's content. I caution you that not everything found here is an absolute truth - some are more lore than history. Yet even in lore can you find grains of truth.

"I only have one request, and that is you leave my tomes unharmed. I have spent many hours carefully rewriting them from the originals for my personal use."